River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
THE EAST.

TIE steamer Mirana, en- route from jog
gins, v s, for New York with an enormous
raft composed of twenty-seven thousand
logs. lost her tow during a heavy storm,
and it was fe ,red on the 10th that it would
get into the track OF the European steam
els
HURD. WAITE Co. of Brooklyn. n. J.,
drv-goOds dealers, failed on tue 2lst for
SI75. 900.
The failure OF E /. Packer. one of the
largest lumber dealers OF Pittsburgh, Pa,
was announced on tn 2lst
Is a game of three ball billiards at Boston
on the 2lst II rvey Mckenna, of Detroit
made q run Of ., 49,, beating the worlds
record
Os the 21st the escape of naphtha into
sewers at Rochester, y l.. caused explo-
SONS in several streets blowing up the man
holes and creating great CONSERVATION The
flames accompanying the explosion burned
, three miles. and four men were killed by
falling walls
ArIa on the 21st at Pittsburgh, Pa, de-
srOyed the dry-goOds establishment of
Freshman q Co and the toy-store OF Yeager
& Co, causing a loss OF 5000. 600
A GAS explosion on the 2ls5 in the Not
tingham mine at Plymouth, Pa, killed four
men.
The captain of the steamer BANANA, which
arr we'd at New York on the Dist from Cape
Hsyti. reported that in storm of the West
Indies seventy vessels were wrecked and
twenty one sailors were drowned
The Collector of Customs at New York
was ms Tucted by Secretary Fairchild on
the 22d to use vigilance in preventing the
landing OF Belgian miners. said to be en-
route 70 take the places OF Lehigh (Pa) val
ley strikers
In Boston on the 22d John COT. farmer.
OF HOdgkins. o.. who was en- route for his
old home in Vermont. was robbed In Boston
on the 22j OF a pocket-book containing
| -. 100
THOMAS BARRY. of the exeeutive board of
the knights of Labor said on the % that
there was a strong feeling against the or
ganizatiOn IN the South, where be had been
visiting
The Montauk Fire Insurance Company Of
Brook yn, y u. on the 22d decided 10 dis
continue business
FRANK c NEALEY, who robbed the hank at
: 90, Ne of $270. 900, was on the 23d ar
rested at Halifax, n.
TIE Henry Ward Beecher memorial statue
fund amounted to S3l 900 on the 23d
Sculptor Ward would be gwen the contract
at once
ALAMP exploded on the 23i in resi-
I
I children received fatal injuries
/ o. the 23d over one taousand men en-
I plOyed by the Philadelphia Reading Rail-
road Company on the lines running from
4 West Falls TO the Port Richmond coal
/ wharyes struck because the company had
| employed several non-union men
/ AT New Bedford, Mass an earthquake
shock was felt early on the morning of the
2;}d
TIE story told by the two survivors OF
the Alfred Watts in Boston a few days age
show that they drifted lhirty-two days
without a sight of a sail. on the water
logged hulk. Twenty-six men were lost
A FIRE on the - des royed the Western
Pennsylvania & New York railroad shops
1 at Oil c ty, Pa Loss 500. 600
| BUSINESS throughout e country was re
ported active on the 23d by Dun's New
| YORK ageIcy, with a good supply of cur
( rency The industrial outlook was not as
/ surfing. however, and uncertainty and hes
itation affected some branches of produc-
ton
THERE were two thousand cases Of typhoid
fever in Pittsburgh. Pa. during the sixty
DAYS ended on the sd, caused by impure
drinking water. and the epidemic was in
creasiug
WHILE going home with Christmas pres
! EMLe. Ms EAAfA - -fNAAAs a NAA0hs anu W.
OF her children were killed BY locomotive
near Rhinebeck, y I
ALARGE number Of the miners and freigh
employees Of the Reading read excepting
those at Reading. Pa. abandoned their posi-
tons on the oath because the company re
fused TO discharge several non-uniOn work
| men.
The death Of Daniel J Manning. ex-Secre
tary Of the Treasury under President Cleye
land occurred at the residence OF his son il
Albany, y Y. on the afternoon Of the Gath
az the age OF fifty-slx years
TIE schooner My p Collins. Of Phil
adelphia, recently fOundered in a storm
the captain and I've OF the crew perishinz
REx DE-. LYMAN ABBOrT has been selec- q
as the acting pastor CT Plymouth Church
Brooklyn, and viii continue so for an in
definite length Of time, certainly untn DC
tober next